TIME PARADOX IMMINENT!

[elets]

so wait wait wait wait. bahumut pretty thouroughly pwned every inch of eorzea, and is still running free. how does he get re-sealed. so that we can re build..... im sensing massive plotholes.

Maybe he just had to blow off some steam? and maybe he calmed down after blowing everything up... unless hes provoked again wont kill again?

[Linkurrra]

I would imagine when we awake, Bahamut is still running loose.

I'm going to think of Bahamut's behavior like a penned up dog. he had all this pent up energy that he needed to burn off. He had fun, destroyed everything in the process, but now has settled down.

It's a lot of work to destroy the entire planet constantly. I'm sure he found a corner of the world to call his own and settled down. And like Elets said.

i'm sure is just chillin somewhere in his labyrinth saying "dont fuck with me"

He's just chillin for the next person to challenge him or step on his territory. He may possibly be a public event where he comes out occasionally to raid and pillage areas farther from his domain for fun. This is where "the adventurers" probably need to protect our city states once we are back in ARR.

[Zezlar]

Like a few people have mentioned, I don't believe Bahamut wants or intends to destroy Eorzea. He was imprisoned for an extreme length of time, and pissed off to the fullest degree possible so he lashed out and took out his aggression.

We still don't know why the Allagans imprisoned Bahamut in the first place. I've been pondering if it had been out of fear. The Allagan's were an extremely advanced race so my thought is it had to be out of fear. Fear that Bahamut would be the only being possible to usher in a new umbral era. So they cast him into space. If true, that obviously was false because they died out.

Bahamut isn't going to run around and destroy stuff for any reason, so in the five years leading up to A Realm Reborn he probably went back to his lair and is chilling out, drinking some cow blood, watching the olympic eorzean games on his 250" magic tv. He'll defend himself if people come along, but I don't think he was re-imprisoned.

Of course this is just how I see it. However it is entirely possible Bahamut is the evil ass primal and was a threat to the world so Allags had to banish him.

[Andrien]

We've been put into the planets lifestream.

[Decconi]

Maybe he just left... and went home? Why does he need to stay in Eorzea?

If somehow we can defeat Bahamut in the new version it will be disappointing (For me at least.) How that if at most an alliance of 24 players could defeat the Wyrm king after he had destroyed everything. I am hoping that Bahamut casted his Mega Flare attack, left the area, and all that we are stuck with is the Garlean Empire. That is who the real enemy is.

[hrdndv]

This guy will instead wake you up.

Oooooooooooo I think that is worse!!!!!!!!!

[hrdndv]

Look at history. Bahamut is tameable... as are all aeons, and can be defeated. I think the Allagans used him as the power source for Dalmud... probably in a crystal. He is only super powerful when you are relatively weak.Looking at FFX: "Bahamut possesses the auto-ability Break Damage Barrier. This enables its attacks to exceed 9999 HP damage right from the start. Bahamut has high strength, Defense and Magic attributes. Bahamut's regular attack causes more damage than any other aeon's. Bahamut can also cast the highest elemental black magic spells." As awesome as Bahamut sounds.... remember when you summonned him he rarely could take out a major boss without a lot of help.

[Aion]

question is, why we "adventurers" put in that aetherial? cant we just hit "return"?

[Bowen]

question is, why we "adventurers" put in that aetherial? cant we just hit "return"?

Plot advancement.
/10char

[Charismatic]

So... where's the confirmation that we weren't sent directly to the future and that we're simply in some sorta frozen state outside of time?
From all I've read it could be either/or. Everyone is acting as if there's something that says one way or the other 100%. I'm curious as to why.